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(No Model.) V R. J. OLIVEY.

MODE 0P OPERATING BELTS AND PULLEYS.

No.'28 9,440. Patented Dec. 4, 1883. 1

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RICHARD J. OLIVEY, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK."

MODE OF OPERATING BELTS AND PULLEYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,440, dated December4, 1883.

I Application filed October 10, 1883. (No model.)

means for operating two pairs of rollers and two pairs of pulleys bymeans of onebelt,when one pair of pulleys are in a line back of theother, or in aline on one side of the plane of the other pair ofpulleys, as will be fully and clearly hereinafter shown by reference tothe accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation,showing the arrangement of the pulleys and the single belt for operatingthe Whole series of pulleys and giving to each their proper movements;and Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the pulleys without the belt,showing also a portion of the rollers to which they may be connected.

a a represent one set of pulleys for operating one set of rollers, 60 (0the pulley a being set in a plane back of the other pulley.

a a represent the second set of pulleys, one of which is alsosetto oneside of the other. They are connected with and operate the rollers b b.

b is the driving-pulley, and b is the belt. The pulleys are set inbearings b b? b b, in the usual way, which bearings are well known andin common use. Consequently a further description is not required here.

0 represents a pulley set diagonally, so that the center of theperiphery comes in the center of the pulleys a a. c" is another pulley,set diagonally, so tha a center line around the periphery will be in aline with a similar line in the center of the faces of the pulleys a aThe object of these diagonally-arranged pulleys is to carry the beltfrom the pulley a to the pulley a, and from the pulley a to a. The belt,in operating, passes up from the driving-pulley to the pulley a, thendown around the pulley c, and from thence up and over the pulleys a a.It then passes down under around the diagonally-arranged pulley c, andfrom thence up and around the pulley a, and then down to and around thedriving-pulley b to the starting-point. This arrangement of pulleys andbelt will run either way, and the belt will still keep its place uponthe pulleys.

I have another application in the ofiice for running one set of rollers,in which a pulley is arranged diagonally for carrying the belt from onepulley to another, arranged in dif- I therefore do not claim such,

proper movements to the two sets of pulleys,

substantially as described.

RICHARD J. OLIVEY. WVitnesses:

J. N. CALDWELL, JAMES SANGSTER.

